Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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ASUU STRIKE: ERC Lobbies Trade Unions to Declare a Day of Solidarity Strike

ASUU STRIKE: ERC Lobbies Trade Unions to Declare a Day of Solidarity Strike By Kayode Salako with banner, photo by DSM Members of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and other layers of student activists embarked on a lobby action on 24th October, 2013. The lobby action was primarily meant to put pressure on the NUT, NUEE, and NUPENG to actually

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ASUU STRIKE: OAU ASUU CHAPTER HOLDS PROTEST RALLY

ASUU STRIKE: OAU ASUU CHAPTER HOLDS PROTEST RALLY By Wole Olubanji (Engels) ERC National Mobilisation Officer Jonathan don’t kill education, photo by Yomi Amoo On 21st October, 2013, the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Chapter of ASUU organised a protest rally to sensitise the public on the crisis rocking the education sector and the lingering ASUU strike. This is part

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ERC CONDEMNS CLAMPDOWN ON ASUU PROTESTS BY POLICE

Education Rights Campaign PRESS STATEMENT ERC CONDEMNS CLAMPDOWN ON ASUU PROTESTS BY POLICE No to Attack on Democratic Right to Protest Bad Policies We Urge ASUU to Take the Struggle to the Next Level by Naming a Day of Nationwide Mass Protest The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) welcomes the decision of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to engage

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ERC Condemns Police Attacks on Protesting Primary School Pupils in Makurdi

Education Rights Campaign Press Statement ERC Condemns Police Attacks on Protesting Primary School Pupils in Makurdi Sack the Benue State CP Now NANS Has a Lot to learn From Benue Primary School Pupils The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns in strong terms the atrocious brutality meted by Police on protesting Primary School Pupils in Makurdi, Benue State, on Thursday 24

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Proscription of workers unions is an infringement on workers democratic right;

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights Oyo State Chapter 27th October, 2013 PRESS STATEMENT THE LINGERING CRISIS AT COCOA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NIGERIA (CRIN): Proscription of workers unions is an infringement on workers democratic right; NLC and TUC Solidarity support is needed urgently! The Oyo State Chapter of the Campaign for Democratic Workers Right (CDWR) condemns the despotic tendency recently

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DURA PACK WORKERS CONTINUE STRUGGLE FOR UNIONISATION AND DECENT WORK

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) DURA PACK WORKERS CONTINUE STRUGGLE FOR UNIONISATION AND DECENT WORK SOLIDARITY ACTIONS BY TRADE UNIONS AND PRO-LABOUR ORGANISATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED! Since October 11, the workers of Dura Pack, Lagos, have been on indefinite strike over the demand for unionization and improved working conditions. The action actually started on October 7 when the mass

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The Aviation Sector should be put under a democratic workers control!

Socialist Party of Nigeria Press Statement Stella Oduah’s N225m Armoured Cars: The Aviation Sector should be put under a democratic workers control! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) decries the insensitive purchase of two bulletproof vehicles worth an outrageously whopping sum of $1.6m (N255m) for the Ms. Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) against

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ASUU STRIKE: WE WELCOME THE NUT, NUPENG AND NUEE’s DECISION TO CALL SOLIDARITY STRIKE

Education Rights Campaign PRESS STATEMENT ASUU STRIKE: WE WELCOME THE NUT, NUPENG AND NUEE’s DECISION TO CALL SOLIDARITY STRIKE We Urge the Three Unions to Name a Day for the Solidarity Strike Actions The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) fully welcomes the decision of three trade unions – the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural

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RELIGIOUS DEGENERATION OF OSUN SCHOOLS’ MERGER CONTROVERSY: ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE FAILURE OF THE P

Education Rights Campaign Press Statement RELIGIOUS DEGENERATION OF OSUN SCHOOLS’ MERGER CONTROVERSY: ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE FAILURE OF THE POLICY ERC Calls on the Osun State Government to Reverse the Policy Immediately ERC Stands Against Religious Division But for A United Campaign to Resist School Mergers The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby calls on the Osun State Government to immediately

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TRADE UNIONS HOLD RALLY AGAINST PRECARIOUS WORK

TRADE UNIONS HOLD RALLY AGAINST PRECARIOUS WORK CDWR CALLS ON UNIONS TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTI-LABOUR PRACTICES By Michael Ogundele Rally against precarious work: protest march hits the street, photo DSM The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) and Joint Action Front (JAF) joined some trade unions in a mass Lagos rally on October 7 to campaign against

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Activists Arrested at Osun Public Meeting

Activists Arrested at Osun Public Meeting Intimidation Attempt Fails Sunday, 13th October, saw an attempt, detailed below, by Aregbesola’s APC Osun State government to stifle opposition. Two activists were arrested, at gun point, at a public meeting! After protests the two activists arrested were eventually released. However their arrest at a Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) public meeting

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DSM 21st Congress Holds

DSM 21st Congress Holds Discussions Centred on Perspectives for Building a Working Class Political Alternative H.T Soweto From both a political and organisational point of view, the Congress of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held on Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 October 2013 was a great success. About 80 delegates and observers representing 17 branches attended the Congress. Comrades at

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NIGERIA: Capitalist Crisis and the Socialist Alternative

NIGERIA: Capitalist Crisis and the Socialist Alternative Resolution on Nigeria Situation: DSM 21st Congress 2013 Segun Sango leading the discussion on Nigerian situation, DSM congress 2013, photo DSM Nigeria is caught up at a cross-road: between the road to revolutionary change and that of ethno-religious conflagration. In the present and coming period, the task of socialists is to campaign consistently

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Document on World Relations

Document on World Relations DSM 21st Congress resolution Global capitalism is in its worst crisis since the 1930s with every nook and cranny – on the basis of the greatest ever integration of the world into capitalist orbit – feeling the pinch of the crisis. The few countries which have enjoyed growth, like China and Brazil, are no longer confident

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BUILDING SPN TO MEET THE ASPIRATION OF THE WORKING MASSES

BUILDING SPN TO MEET THE ASPIRATION OF THE WORKING MASSES DSM 21st Congress Resolution The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) passed a resolution to form the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) in the National Committee meeting held on April 14 & 15 2012 with the aim of putting forward a political alternative for the Nigerian working masses that could stand in

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Programmes and Projections for the DSM Student Wing

Programmes and Projections for the DSM Student Wing DSM 21st Congress 2013 students wing meeting on October 4, photo by DSM In the last few years, our organization has been striving to ensure that new layers of ideologically and politically prepared comrades and cadres capable of playing major roles in expanding our frontiers in the Student movement are raised across

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NIGERIA AT 53: DAY OF MASS ACTION IN OSOGBO

NIGERIA AT 53: DAY OF MASS ACTION IN OSOGBO Students, workers and community people draw the need for a genuine working people’s political alternative As Nigeria marked another independence anniversary on October 1, students, workers, youth and community people in Osun State held mass action and public discussion on the overwhelming neo-liberal attacks on education and living standards and how

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SPN Condemns Police Brutality of Newly Recruited Teachers in Rivers State

SPN Condemns Police Brutality of Newly Recruited Teachers in Rivers State Rivers State Must Give Letter of Employment to all the Teachers The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in absolute terms, the barbaric, undemocratic and inhuman treatment of 13, 000 newly employed teachers in Rivers State by the Rivers State Command of the Nigerian Police. According to newspapers’ reports,